Chekhov's Mistress
Milan Kundera wrote…
an indulgent and wholly satisfying piece in the New Yorker, which I cannot find online, titled “What is a Novelist? How Great Writers are Made.” I can do little more than to point you to the October 9th issue and tell you that as Kundera sweeps through the history of the novel in this article he does nothing if not make you want to devote yourself to ”the ethic of the essential” in which he implicitly – no, explicitly – questions writing anything that doesn’t tear “through the curtain of pre-interpretation.” As an example, he exalts our beloved Cervantes whose “destructive act echoes and extends into every novel worthy of the name; it is the identifying sign of the art of the novel.”
If that doesn’t whet your appetite for the article, then you won’t be interested in Kundera’s forthcoming The Curtain, an Essay in Seven Parts.
Also note, that Jeff and The Literary Saloon point out that Kundera’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being will finally be available in Czech in the Czech Republic.
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“Unbearable Lightness...’ was a lifechanging book for me. I need to read it again.
I’ll have to look for that article.
– Garnet (11/03 at 07:25 PM)
I reviewed the artticle on my blog:
http://happyantipodean.blogspot.com/2006/10/review-what-is-novelist-how-great.html
Enjoy!
– Dean (11/16 at 01:34 AM)
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- Posted by: Bud Parr
- Date: October 25, 2006
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